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The idle musings of John BWed, 19 Nov 2014 22:07:53 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=326Comment on Some men never learn by zacariashttp://www.johnband.org/blog/2014/11/12/some-people-never-learn/#comment-120766
Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:07:53 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1765#comment-120766Has he ever raped someone? I do not think so… This article is disgusting
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Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:48:05 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1765#comment-114445Sam, is that you?
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Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:11:20 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1765#comment-114319Thanks for this – I just read SdB’s latest piece of rubbish and felt the urge to gag. Serious, actual vomit.

I agree that many of the men who pay for this “advice” must be sadly misguided and need MUCH better role models. However, if you read through the various forums, tweets etc. by the PUA “fraternity” they’re expressing their need for “love” quite oddly. They seem to be expressing it in terms of hatred, violence and deeply entrenched misogyny. But hey, that must be women’s fault, right? Nothing to do with patriarchy, rape culture and the ongoing commodification of both.

Hey Sam, guess what! Like the rest of the 1/3 of women who will be raped or sexually assaulted in their lifetime, when I was a teenager I was verbally and physically bullied, harrassed and assaulted by some boys at high school. And guess what? I didn’t start calling men the equivalent of “bitch”, “whore”, “slut”, “cunt”, “just currency”, “too ugly to be raped”, and all the other gorgeous “I just want to be loved” rhetoric from the likes of RSD and their supporters. I didn’t go on the laugh at rape jokes where the victim is the butt of the “gag” (there’s that word again) not have I ever thought it’s hilarious that people I PAY to admire run around the street assaulting people.

And guess what Sam? Being raped is not the equivalent of not being able to have a conversation with someone in a bar.

I agree that anyone who is shy or socially awkward shouldn’t be mocked for that and I don’t like the tone of some of the criticism of PUA & followers either. And no-one, male or female, should humiliate ordemean anyone they meet in a bar, club, the streeet, wherever (you know, like walking up to them and shoving their head to your crotch #sohumiliating #alsocriminal #sonotwhatwomenareknowntodoveryoften). It’s not particularly evolved behaviour and I’m hoping that’s what the human race in general is trying to do.

Sam, you have, as this article beautifully illustrates, your head so far up your own arse you can’t see that what you’ve written on this is basically blaming women for the behaviour of men, aka victim blaming. It’s women’s fault that men behave like this?

Wow, sisterhood really IS powerful – we have remote controls that make men act a certain way. I can’t find mine, I’ve looked under the couch and everywhere….

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Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:21:08 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1765#comment-114008The point of his article that many men go to these seminars (which he specifies are on a sliding scale of seediness) because they have no ability or confidence and they are willing to try anything in order to get laid / have a relationship. I know men like this, they are constantly ashamed and depressed that they get little attention from women. What he says is true. What’s the fucken problem? You write like a smarmy, gossipy teenager in my opinion.
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Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:51:18 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1765#comment-113806Bro’s before ho’s, man. Women might be objects, but at least they’re sexy objects.
]]>Comment on Memory hole? Fixed that for ya by Andy Phttp://www.johnband.org/blog/2014/11/07/memory-hole-fixed-that-for-ya/#comment-108318
Fri, 07 Nov 2014 03:47:17 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1753#comment-108318Explain what you mean by RSD ‘aims and methods’ with some reference

RSD is still run by exactly the same people. You haven’t researched the company or the content

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Fri, 07 Nov 2014 02:07:38 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1753#comment-108254Sam:
Your old piece is way too uncritical of RSD’s aims and methods (it’s Tim’s job as a PUA to play people, and your job as a journalist to notice you’re being played, and I think he did his job here significantly better than you did), but your statement on Blanc is appreciated.

I had assumed that the Tele had taken the piece down at your request to spare your blushes after RSD’s true nature became clear to everyone. If they’ve done it to save *themselves* from looking terrible, then the world is a slightly better place than I thought.

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Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:11:13 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1753#comment-108181I wrote this piece a decade ago when Julien Blanc was 14 years old. RSD was then a small operation run by completely different people. I in no way support violence against women or the methods used by Julien Blanc. I no longer work for News Corporation which published this article. I have no say over whether it remains on the web or not.
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Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:22:42 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1724#comment-97871[…] this review of a rather unsettling game based around colonisation almost makes me want to again. The death of the banana republic – John Band on the end of the United Fruit Company. Revealed: the guest list that proves that […]
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Sun, 26 Oct 2014 23:28:30 +0000http://www.johnband.org/blog/?p=1724#comment-97342Good call, fixed.
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